Officials at University of Wisconsin-Parkside said Thursday that students enrolled at the university may have been exposed to a data risk.

An email from university relations said students who were admitted or enrolled at the school since fall of 2010 may have been exposed to having their personal information accessed without the school's knowledge.

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Campus Technology Services staff performing routine maintenance on March 16 discovered that a computer virus had been installed on a university server.

The server was immediately shut down.

The virus entered the school's system in 2013, the school told WISN 12 News.

"We have no evidence that data was harvested," UW-Parkside Assistant Chancellor John Jaraczewski said.

Jaraczewski said the university learned the virus, the malware, was planted last November, but it appears thieves hit a dead end.

"The virus, if you will, that entered our system was not looking for information that was contained on the server," Jaraczewski said.

The server contained student Social Security numbers and other personal information back to 2010, but investigators said hackers were trying to steal credit and debit card information. None of that was on the server.

Some students told WISN 12 News they were going to the student center to the Educators Credit Union to have their credit reports checked at no charge.

The university is telling students to monitor their accounts just in case.

"I'm sure they're implementing some kind of way to make sure it doesn't happen again," UW-Parkside student John Scalia said.

"When I saw that they said there was probably nothing wrong, I felt sort of reassured," UW-Parkside student Luke Christiansen said.

The university said the FBI is trying to track the hackers.

"UW-Parkside takes the security of all data, especially the personal information of its students, extremely seriously," said Chief Information Officer Ilya Yakovlev. "We believe the chance of sensitive data falling into the wrong hands is remote."